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"That their designs appear seamless, effortless\u2014even inevitable\u2014is both the intention of architects Peter L. Shelton (left) and Lee F. Mindel and the deception. Every detail of their work\u2014from the floor plan and the materials to the lighting, the furnishings and the artwork\u2014has been carefully analyzed. \u201CWe like to think and not style,\u201D Mindel says of the pair\u2019s intellectual approach. \u201CBut it should look as if you can\u2019t imagine it any other way.\u201D Perhaps best known for creating sleek Manhattan apartments that reflect their Modernist influences\u2014Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Poul Kjaerholm, Arne Jacobsen\u2014Shelton and Mindel, who head a 14-person firm they established in 1978, have also designed more traditional spaces and in a range of settings across the country and around the world.\n\nWhat inspires them is not the Modernist aesthetic itself but its impetus to experiment and break down barriers. \u201CWe like the idea of space being not so assignable to function, but assigning it as you see fit,\u201D says Mindel. \u201CYou don\u2019t have to live the way the Cleavers lived.\u201D Regardless of the setting, the team, whose new ventures include a streamlined sink fitting for Waterworks and furniture collections for Knoll, believe resolutely in the maxim that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It is preferable, Shelton remarks, that visitors to their residences, rather than noting a chair or a cabinet, say, \u201CWeren\u2019t you moved by that space?\u2019\n\nShelton, Mindel\n\n 212-206-6406"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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